Yeah. Panic attacks ssssuuuuuccccckkk and the worst part is, outside of those who suffer them it’s relatively uncommon to know what they actually are (your brain’s fight-or-flight response triggering incorrectly resulting in full-blown physical panic, not “oh man I’m anxious”) and virtually unknown what that actually…

I only began enjoying competitive online games when I took whatever part of my brain is responsible for giving even the slightest of shits what internet randos think of me, and throwing it deep into a fire somewhere.

Now I say nice things all the time! And if I get a response similar to your “lol”, Nathan, I am…

For what it’s worth, my brother (extremely liberal) recently had to move to a very conservative part of the country for about a year for work. He’s divorced, and was bemoaning his lack of a love life over beers prior to the move.

Since moving there, his Tinder account has, by all accounts, turned into the “I would like…

Emulators, kids. Play the good versions until Squeenix gives you a reason to shell out a second (or third, or forth) time. It won’t stop these ports from coming out, because porting from mobile to PC is a very quick process requiring minimal QA and near-zero submissions standards so it’s basically free money for them…

I guess I’ll chime in saying “if you wanna lose weight, do the keto thing” because, in my late 30s, I finally decided to quit rolling my eyes at the keto evangelists and give it a shot. I’m a month in and almost 20 lbs down, and my food budget has been slashed to less than half of what it was.

The dumber you are, the less likely you are to believe that you are dumb.

Idiots quickly growing angry at anything confusing (like being told your super-patriotic thing was in fact a trick by Russians) and digging in on their opinion because now the other side is a threat instead of a viewpoint is as old as humanity,…

Bleh. I still have my SNES cart of this game, though for recent playthroughs I’ve just stuck to emulators because it’s a zillion times less of a pain in the ass than digging out the SNES and getting it hooked up to a household that no longer has anything resembling a CRT television (I did dig out the original SNES pad…

God, thank you.

This article is jaw-droppingly bad. So the government, who clearly has no stake in this kind of thing whatsoever, to say nothing of the big-name brands in the US, don’t want you using a Chinese-made phone unless it’s made by them in China, eh? And that doesn’t immediately reek of hyperbole and…

Mneeh, I’d say the overall effect was still pretty profound. Most companies don’t like actively pissing off a sizeable, vocal part of their community — I don’t think Bungie’s real thrilled that the reception to D2 has cooled off as much as it has, for example. If they genuinely didn’t give a shit they’d just go…

The more-or-less accepted purpose of stuff like Denuvo is indeed that; they know it’s gonna get cracked eventually; pirates are gonna win in the end just due to having more resources than big companies do, ironically enough. You wanna keep your CP up to date and change it every time there’s a crack, you need to pay…

Yep, pretty much all this. The mechanism behind being an eSports fan and being a regular old Sports fan are identical. I wish more gamers were accepting of this?

Sports fans can be horrendous douches about it, and a lot of folks who are/were into nerdier pursuits don’t have fond opinions of them as a stereotype. A…

“Trump” and “knowing things” is generally a risky proposition all the way around.

While this is only tangentially related, it’s still my favorite Not-Having-A-Microwave story:

I was looking for a place to live closer to my job, and wound up interviewing with three women who shared a house and had an open 4th bedroom (their previous roommate had apparently been “a drama queen” who messed with…

To everyone confused/angry about this: It’s kids, guys.

Not always, sure, but really? Most the fans who take it this far? It’s kids, most of the time.

You’re getting upset about teenagers doing teenager things (shipping predates the internet by a good long margin of decades), or maybe adults who enjoy teenager things…

So, there’s an unproduced* movie scrip that’s been floating around for a while called “Balls Out”. It has a side character in Tom Cruise, playing himself, more or less. He’s a hyper-intense man who insists on staring into people’s eyes until they avert their gaze before doing insane things while soliloquizing about…

...Hail Satan, I guess?

Good lord this timeline is fucking weird.

I’m totally okay with Japan taking this one back. If we could shift cultural mores more in the direction of the symbol’s original meaning and take that away from the current Neo-Nazi crop, that can only be a good thing in the long run.

Imagine the result if they had to drop using it because the current generation…

You guys ever read that comic by Warren Ellis called Transmetropolitan?

I swear to fuck we’re inching closer and closer to that reality. The headline to this article could’ve oh-so-easily been a throwaway joke headline from that series, and 20 years ago I would’ve been all “Ha ha Warren sure has a crazy view of the…

I’m officially now 100% on “Team Nobody” for this shitshow, they’re just feeding off each other for attention now.

Jesus christ, get a room you two.

(Disclaimer: I love Snoop.)

My semi-professional guess is that, to him, this is an endorsement first and foremost which means making it look decent. Whether he personally plays or not, he knows a lot of gamers are in his audience, knows that if he’s actually going to be the one playing it’s going to be a lot of…